artsy-craftsy, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

artsy-craftsy adj.

[the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, founded in London in 1888, but more generally an attack on the perceived failings of those condemned as ‘artistic’]

pretentious, humourless, self-opinionated.

1950		Leicesster Chron. 23 Dec. 6/4: ‘But Greenwich Village [...] I thought you’d look sort of artsy-craftsy’.
1964		L. Hansberry Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window in Three Negro Plays (1969) I i: My little artsy-craftsy newspaper is going to stay clear of politics.
1973		D. Ponicsan Cinderella Liberty 76: These artsy-craftsy types are a dime a dozen.
1985		E. Leonard Glitz 129: Don’t go back, Fran, it’s all artsy-craftsy over there now.
2000		G.V. Higgins At End of Day (2001) 88: This very hush-hush, very high-class, artsy-craftsy operation.